On our new feature series, WORT sits down with the editorial staff over at one of UW-Madison’s student newspapers, The Daily Cardinal, to get an update on the latest campus news. On today’s episode, WORT producer Jonah Chester spoke with Kalli Anderson and Will Cioci, Editors-in-Chief of the Daily Cardinal, about the recent back-and-forth between […]
Game on? 42 Badgers football players and staff test positive for COVID...
Fall football is on for UW-Madison and the Big Ten. UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told reporters earlier this week that a Big Ten fall football conference would need buy-in from all fourteen schools in the conference. “I will say we’re all going to move together in the Big Ten,” she says. “We’re all going to […]
“We might have just gotten unlucky:” UW-Madison Chancellor Reb...
Last Wednesday, after mounting pressure from county leadership and spiking COVID-19 case rates, UW-Madison moved all classes online until September 25th and quarantined two dorms through September 23rd. The quarantined dorms, Witte and Sellery, are two of UW-Madison’s largest residential facilities. Just before quarantining, Witte reported a ten percent positivity rate for COVID-19 among residents, […]
University Switches Online, Quarantines Dorms as Covid-19 Cases Rise
Since the reopening of campus last week, Covid-19 cases have spiked at UW-Madison. 772 students have tested positive since classes began last week. Today, Public Health Madison Dane County reported 456 new cases of coronavirus, a majority of which are preliminary believed to be linked to UW-Madison students and staff. In an attempt to control […]
County Executive urges UW-Madison to send students home or invest in m...
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi is asking UW-Madison administrators to consider sending students home for the fall semester or increasing the campus’ staffing to counter COVID-19. The request comes after the University reported a spike in COVID-19 cases this weekend. According to Public Health Madison Dane County, since September 1st, more than nine hundred people […]
Aiming To Prevent Spread, UW-Madison Issues Strict Guidelines
(Photo: A student walks solo in front of the Hamel Music Center downtown; Photo: Chali Pittman/WORT News) UW-Madison officially reopened last week, bringing thousands of students back to campus. Initially, the university asked students to take precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Now, the university is issuing strict guidelines for undergraduate students who do […]
